Summary

Course Aim:

This course is structured to cover the features and workflow of InDesign suitable for Subs/Editors. This course covers all the essential text aspects of InDesign required by Subs/Editors.

Course Prerequisites:

The prerequisite for this course is that you have Sub/Editorial experience.

Course Duration:

One day 9:00am – 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

• Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
• Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
• Certificates
• eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions

Content

Course Content

During this course you will learn about:

Topic 1 The InDesign Interface

• Topic Objectives
• The Welcome Screen
• Application bar
• The Tools panel
• An Overview of the Tools panel
• Using context menus
• The Control panel
• Displaying InDesign's panels
• Panel menus
• Resizing panels
• Moving panels

• Dock and undock panels
• Using Workspaces
• Zooming in and out
• Scrolling the view
• Turning pages in a document
• Managing Document windows
• About Adobe Bridge
• Mini Bridge
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 2 Adding Text and Graphics

• Topic Objectives
• Typing or pasting text
• Placing text
• Adding placeholder text
• Making the frame fit the text
• Placing graphics
• Placing multiple graphics
• Fitting a graphic to its frame
• Resizing graphics
• Moving a frame and its content

• The content grabber (CS5 and later)
• Placing InDesign documents
• Grouping objects
• Selecting objects
• Copying an image into a new frame
• Stacking objects
• The reference point locator
• Use smart guides to align objects
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 3 Using Layers

• Topic Objectives
• The Layers panel
• Creating layers
• Putting objects on to layers
• Rearranging layers

• Hiding or showing a layer
• Locking layers
• Deleting a layer
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 4 Working with Text

• Topic Objectives
• Text frames
• Creating text frames
• Moving and resizing text frames
• Connecting text frames
• Threading
• Unthreading
• Word and character count
• Methods for flowing text
• Setting text frame options

• Displaying hidden characters
• Text selection techniques
• Using Glyphs
• Using special characters
• Using white space characters
• Inserting break characters
• Linked text files
• Text import filters
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 5 Formatting Text

• Topic Objectives
• Fonts and Typefaces
• Recently used fonts (CS6)
• Using the Control panel to format text
• Using the Character panel
• Choosing a font and style
• Setting type size
• Changing text using keyboard shortcuts
• Leading
• Kerning and tracking
• Setting kerning and tracking values
• Using Optical Kerning
• Scaling Type
• Baseline shift

• Skewing text
• Capitalisation
• Making characters superscript or subscript
• Underline and strikethrough
• Paragraph formatting
• Text alignment
• Setting space above or below
• Indenting text
• Drop caps
• Hyphenation
• OpenType fonts
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 6 Text Wrap

• Topic Objectives
• Wrap To options
• Making a frame ignore text wrap
• Changing the shape of a text wrap

• Changing preferences for text wrap
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 7 Paragraph and Character Styles

• Topic Objectives
• Using styles
• The Paragraph and Character Styles panels
• Creating styles "by example"
• Working with style groups
• Applying paragraph and character styles

• Clearing style overrides
• Editing styles
• Importing styles from another document
• Deleting paragraph and character styles
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 8 Outputting to PDF

• Topic Objectives
• Producing PDF files for approval
• Producing press quality PDF files
• Exporting to PDF format

• InDesign's PDF Presets
• Using PDF presets
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 9 Text Controls

• Topic Objectives
• The Find/Change command
• Tips for Finding/Changing text
• Finding and changing objects
• Find/change using queries
• The Find Font command
• The Check Spelling command
• Automatically correcting spelling

• Using dynamic spelling
• Track Changes
• How changes are displayed in the Story Editor
• Accepting and rejecting tracked changes
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 10 Type Composition

• Topic Objectives
• Adjusting kerning between words
• Hyphenation
• Avoiding word breaks
• Flush space
• Creating text that Spans or Splits columns
• Using the Eyedropper tool with type
• Paragraph Rules

• Keep options
• Creating hanging punctuation
• The Indent to Here character
• Tabs
• Adjusting underline options
• Baseline grids
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 11 Working with Tables

• Topic Objectives
• Features of tables
• Creating a table from scratch
• Converting existing text into a table
• Changing a table into normal text
• Importing Microsoft Office tables
• Embedding a table inside another table
• Adding text or graphics to a table
• Navigating in a table
• Selecting cells
• Inserting rows and columns
• Deleting rows and columns
• Merging cells
• Table headers and footers
• Resizing tables
• Overset cells
• Applying a border to a table

• Adding stroke and fill colour to cells
• Table and cell styles
• Defining table and cell styles
• Formatting precedence in styles
• Importing table styles from other documents
• Applying table and cell styles
• Editing table and cell styles
• Basing one table or cell style on another
• Deleting table and cell styles
• Redefining table or cell styles based on current formatting
• Overriding table and cell styles
• Breaking the link to table or cell styles
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts

• Keys for selecting tools
• Keys for selecting and moving objects
• Keys for the Pages panel
• Keys for transforming objects
• Keys for editing paths and frames
• Keys for tables
• Keys for finding and changing text
• Keys for working with type
• Keys for working with type
• Keys for navigating through and selecting text
• Keys for viewing documents and document workspaces
• Keys for working with XML
• Keys for indexing
• Keys for panels
• Keys for the Control panel

• Keys for the Character and Paragraph panels
• Keys for the Character and Paragraph Styles panels
• Keys for the Tabs panel
• Keys for the Layers panel
• Keys for the Pages panel
• Keys for the Links panel
• Keys for the Colour panel
• Keys for using the Separations Preview panel
• Keys for the Swatches panel
• Keys for the Transform panel
• Keys for working with Adobe Bridge
• Keys for working with Adobe Bridge (continued)
• Keys for resolving conflicts between Mac OS

Appendix: Index

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